Always the rebel at heart, but somehow lacking the curriculum vitae.

This installation still looks like a painting gone 3-D, but it somehow lacks the coherence of earlier works.

So it's natural for some people to judge those who don't have a job as somehow lacking in basic American fiber.

Everything that came into her head seemed inappropriate, somehow lacking.

Low judicial pay should trouble us not because the judges will somehow lack "excellence."

If, on the other hand, the intention is simply to provide information of a general sort, it seems clumsy and somehow lacking in authority.

"Am I right in thinking that you feel my leadership is somehow lacking?"

But their faces, while handsome and impressive, somehow lacked individuality.

He had done very well, but somehow playing against three-dimensional imagery lacked the excitement of the real thing.

It seems to me that it lacks somehow a soul or a purpose.